Personal Attention Roleplay
- ISBN-10
- 1777485215
- ISBN-13
- 9781777485214
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10-19
- Author
- Helen Chau Bradley
Description
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her over-worked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships--with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A self-hating mixed-race freelancer takes drastic action to change her life. The legacy of a pitiless piano teacher plagues a stressed-out single mother. The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the intersections of intimate and political power. They centre young Asian Canadians struggling to navigate the dissonant space between cultures, as well as the shifting desires and realities of QTBIPOC relationships and communities. This precise and eerie collection hints at the uncanny but is grounded in the details of social interactions and everyday life.
